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In hindsight, the Clayton Chamber of Commerce might have been wrong to ban DNA Bail Bonds from its Christmas parade, held yesterday on Main Street. Certainly, the chamber has neither enjoyed nor benefited from the publicity that began with this newspaper and spread rapidly among media outlets across the state.
Its true that DNAs float with young girls in prison jumpsuits and oversized handcuffs had nothing to do with Christmas. Then again, a parade put on by a pro-business group like the chamber should probably cut businesses some parade-float slack. A parade, after all, is as much about business promotion as it is entertainment, at least in small towns.
Certainly, DNAs float was over the top, with toilet paper trailing from a toilet in a mock jail cell. But take away the toilet and that paper trail, and the float, while having nothing to do with the meaning of the season, was hardly offensive.
DNA, meanwhile, has gotten more attention from its banishment than it would have garnered from a parade float in Clayton, which, while growing, is still a small town. DNA, based in Smithfield, paid $145 to enter the parade. It got that money back plus the equivalent of thousands more, we suspect, in free advertising.
Thats a win for DNA and a public-relations loss for the chamber.
But no one should be too harsh on the chamber. No matter what one thinks of the chambers decision to banish DNA from the parade, the chamber was within its rights to do so. It also deserves credit for offering a compromise that the owners of DNA rejected.
The chamber is a private organization, and as such, it is free to associate with whomever it wants. By the same token, it is free to shut the door on whomever it wants, including a bail-bonds business and its over-the-top parade float.
The federal mandate to purchase health insurance notwithstanding, this is still a free country. In bouncing DNA bail bonds from its parade, the Clayton Chamber of Commerce exercised its freedom, and we should all respect that, no matter our views on Christmas floats.


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I would look at the plumbing permit, see who signed off on it, and talk to the inspector.
If it was inspected, then you know the pipes in the wall were done right.
We just bought a brand new house (new construction, not just new to us). Its 3 levels, 5 bathrooms, basement (no crawl space) on a septic system.
When we moved in everything was great for about a week. Then one day, my wife called and said she could smell sewer gas every where! We checked all of the p-traps, they were all full of water (and we ran more water just to be sure). Over time, she pinpointed it to the toilets. Basically, when they flush its like a puff of sewer gas is coming back up. We have worked with our builder - they had the plumber come back out and replaced two toilets. That didnt help - my wife can still smell it. The plumbers even installed a backflow preventer to the septic tank, so that stuff could go to the septic tank but nothing could come back toward the house.
The builder says one thing that could be the culprit is that since the septic tank is so new, its not yet full, so that creates a giant air bubble in it. And as the septic tank gradually fills up, it would displace that air bubble and it would be less likely for that air to flow back up through the system.
The smell happens with every toilet in the house. The unfortunate part is that my wife is the only one that can smell it. I have horrible allergies, so I dont smell much, one of the builders smokes alot so he doesnt have the best sense of smell either. My wife is complaining of horrible headaches - so I know she isnt making anything up. At one point, I opened the cap to the cleanout in the backyard, and the second the cap came off she said that was what she smelled in the house.
The drains aren't slow, so we dont think its a venting issue. There is still one vent that is on the highest part of the roof that no one has yet inspected.
A few other interesting things:
1. This all started on one day. Wednesday everything was fine, Thursday the house stunk. The only thing happening is we had flooring guys in the basement that day, but I dont think they would have fouled up the whole system.
2. I ran the washing machine yesterday and noticed something strange. About 30 minutes after the washer stopped, I went to the half bath - opened the toilet lid and it appeared as if water was splashed in the toilet - there was water on the bottom of the lid, and on the inside of the bowl and rim - very weird. Didnt know if this might be a sign of a blockage. With all of the discharge from the washing machine - maybe the toilet in the half bath was acting like a vent?
Please help - the plumbers and builders are all at a loss on this one, and my wife cant deal with any more headaches!!!
I would look at the plumbing permit, see who signed off on it, and talk to the inspector.
If it was inspected, then you know the pipes in the wall were done right.
Also, there should be an outside-the-house vent on the line to the septic tank, so any "bubble" would vent out of there if there was any kind of differential pressure.
Terry's suggestion is excellent. Next step after that is a home inspector, or a local plumber who actually has a clue, whose charges you will bill back to the builder under threat of otherwise suing him. But Step One would be every city and state authority who you can interest in the problem, because their input may be helpful when it comes time to make a claim against the builder's warranty. A home filled with sewer gas is not a home that is fit for habitation, so he could be considered to be in breach of his warranty. To show how serious you are, suggest to the builder that he notify his insurance carrier and/or bonding agent of the potential claim.
One other point: this isn't your problem to solve. It is his problem, and he needs to be aggressively attempting to understand what it is that his people screwed up. Unless the builder is ready to take the house back and pay all of your expenses to move somewhere else, he needs to get some actual competent people out there and to start acting very, very proactively.
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We talked to the builder and he said the county inspected everything in the house - which was all needed for the C/O to get us in the house.
Slightly new development. So I just opened the clean out again and then the cap for the new backflow (they are a foot or two apart). I didnt get the overwhelming sewer smell when I opened the cleanout cap. I flushed some water through the cleanout just to make sure the backflow was working - and it was. Had my wife come over and she could not smell any sewer odor coming from the cleanout. She then smelled the hole where the backflow was and said it stunk, but wasnt quite the same thing. Which is weird, because yesterday before the backflow, I took the cap off the cleanout and immediately she said that was the smell from inside the house. So maybe its possible that the backflow is working and preventing sewer gases from building up in the pipes leading to the septic tank.
So we have filled sinks and tubs with cold and hot water - no smell for her. We let it sit overnight - still no smell. So, now there is no smell in the cleanout, no smell in the water - and she smells the toilets - and gets the odor. So I had her get a bit closer and she said it seems the smell is more pronounced at the small holes at the top of the bowl that fill the bowl with water after being flushed.
So is it possible that there is something in the toilet?? They are all new toilets - in fact the one she just smelled was replaced yesterday. Is it possible they have some coating that is off-gassing giving her the sensation of sewer gas? On one of them I put some bleach directly into the tank and the overflow tube, flushed the toilet and am letting it sit for about an hour. I am wondering if there is some kind of bacteria/mildew/fungus somewhere in the toilet that is causing an odor resembling sewer gas.
So thought I would post an update - I think we found the issue. So we smelled all over - and yesterday even I started smelling something. So my wife started smelling around the toilet, and in the 1/2 bath she said she didnt really smell anything in the bowl but it was maybe 6-12" above the bowl where she smelled it. Then i said, "Smell the toilet seat" and she said "wow, that's bad" So we quickly removed all the toilet seats in the house. During that time my wife was smelling them saying, "yea, that's it" so we put them all outside - let the house air out a bit, scrubbed all the toilets - took a walk to let her nose reset. When we came back in she didnt smell anything - she smelled every toilet - nothing. Then she went outside and smelled the toilet seats and said that was it! Her reaction to them was bad - horrible headache and even her throat started to swell - almost like a very bad allergic reaction. So its hard to say if there was a septic issue that maybe the backflow preventer helped with or if it was just something with the coating on the toilet seat. But we have resolution!!
I wanted to post my resolution - there are so many threads I came across that seemed to be similar to my story and then right when they got close, they stopped posting.
So hopefully this might help someone else. Thanks for the support guys!
Toilet seats?
Who would have guessed.
Thanks for the update!
What kind of toilet seats are these?
This is stranger than strange.
Your wife may be sensitive to formaldehyde. It is used in some press wood products and can cause similar symptoms. Some toilet seats are made of press wood.
Sounds like the house must have been vacant a long time for the traps in them to dry out and the seats absorbed the odor.....I've seen the results of dry traps causing small insects to congregate in the toilet but usually a regular flushing solves the problems...must have been dry quite a while.....rcm

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Another big miss by Apple... is a "EDIT BEFORE CALL" function for any telephone number. It's a standard in any symbian or windows mobile, i wonder if the guys in cupertino ever had one in their hands.
For business traveller it's a must, you need it to use call back services, call cards or any other call saving feature your operator might offer.
It would be cool to have an app that auto dial various configuration [number]+[codes] based on a configurable menu, this is something that no other phone has done before.


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My vision of the youngsters of today: The concrete world.
Welcome dear readers, i am writing this article because i want the society to wake up. A lot of the youngsters don't know what they want to do, but they all know that they want to earn a lot of money. This is a mindset I see a lot in my society, of course there are some youngsters that work on their future and got a goal in mind but a lot don't.
You start making money when you are not drivin by it.
I am tired of seeing people make the same mistake over and over again. It is like they do not learn from their history. When you ask someone for help they always want something back for it. This is not how we should live; we should be willing to help one and another for nothing. Instead of working alone on a project you could inspire your friends and work as a team. But no, this is not how it works today. Everyone is after their own money and motives.
Forget the money and focus on networking with people. When you start networking you get a group of people around you that share the same dream. Becoming the best, now you can focus on your goal with a team – see it like a student's association or the Bilderberg group.
Now how can you change your society? It is simple, get your friends together and start brainstorming about what you guys really want. Start networking online and in real life – search for groups that you are interested in. You still at school? It can't be better – Your classmates have the same goal as you do, start meeting up with them and share knowledge. Start a company together or an advice group – you name it!
Just initiate something and stop hanging around at the streets earning that 60 euro a day. With hard work and passion money comes by itself.
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In the fall of 1991, an unusual song found its way onto the radio. It was called "Mind Playing Tricks on Me," and was performed by a Houston hip-hop trio called Geto Boys. A slow, mournful plaint, "Mind" relied on long, harmonically complex guitar samples—a departure from the short horn bursts and rapid drums then dominating hip-hop. If the song had an antecedent, it was the blues, not music you might have heard in a disco. Geto Boys—Scarface, Bushwick Bill, and Willie D—had deep, unmistakably Southern voices, and their lyrics didn't celebrate or protest anything. "Mind" is an unsettling song, its opening couplets freighted with anxiety: "At night I can't sleep, I toss and turn. / Candlesticks in the dark, visions of bodies being burned. / Four walls just staring at a nigger. / I'm paranoid, sleeping with my finger on the trigger." For several months, "Mind" was on the radio all the time. Then Geto Boys—and Southern hip-hop—seemed to disappear. In the fourteen years since "Mind" was released, the band has showed up again on the Billboard pop charts only twice, most recently in 1996.
Now Houston hip-hop is back, enjoying a musical hegemony that happens only occasionally in pop. Not since Nirvana made Seattle the capital of grunge, in 1991, have a city, a sound, and a significant chart presence been so closely linked. One of the year's biggest hip-hop songs, "Still Tippin' "—which was released on Swishahouse, an independent label, in 2003, and rereleased by Warner Bros. in January—introduced Americans to three influential Houston m.c.s: the needling, self-deprecating Mike Jones; the swaggering, bass-voiced giant Slim Thug; and the cheerfully louche white rapper Paul Wall. Wall's major-label début record, "The Peoples Champ," entered the charts at No. 1 in September, and Jones's first major-label album, "Who Is Mike Jones?," which was released in April, has gone platinum. Two other local m.c.s, Aztek and Short Dog, who are virtually unknown outside the city, have been signed by established industry figures—Jay-Z and Russell Simmons, respectively—and the Geto Boys' new album, "The Foundation," has been well received.
"Still Tippin' " is an elegant primer on Houston hip-hop. The music is unhurried and woozy, as if it had been left too long in the sun. A violin phrase wells up again and again, like a bubble in a blender, while the rappers hew to the sticky beat, drawling about cars, women, and diamond grills (the precious-metal molds inlaid with diamonds that rappers wear on their front teeth). The easy finesse of Houston's m.c.s can make East Coast hip-hop sound stressed out, uptight, or just plain square. The Houston sound is, above all, slow, a perpetually decelerating music that is equally good at conveying menace, calm, and grief. (The sound was taken to a logical extreme in the early nineties, when a Houston native named DJ Screw found a way to play hip-hop records at nearly half speed, creating a genre that was eventually named after him—screw. Skillfully executed, screw music turns hip-hop and R. & B. back into blues and gospel.) The city's heat seems to encourage both languor and soul-spilling; Houston m.c.s rap charmingly about their possessions but are comfortable singing about death, racist cops, and life in prison.
They are also an unusually collegial group; every m.c. and producer I met in Houston gave me phone numbers for other musicians. The intense and sometimes lethal professional rivalries that characterize the New York hip-hop scene seemed hardly to exist; in Houston, everyone is on everyone else's record, and one rapper's commercial success is invariably two or three others' as well.
Almost every Houston rapper owes something—musical inspiration, performance opportunities, moral support—to Bun B, the hip-hop community's thirty-two-year-old elder. For fourteen years, Bun B has performed and recorded as one half of the duo UGK (Underground Kingz). On October 18th, he released his first solo album, "Trill." In seven days, it sold almost a hundred and twenty thousand copies, entering the Billboard charts at No. 6. "Trill" is a focussed and occasionally brilliant example of Houston rap, preoccupied with the status-enhancing possibilities of guns, cars, and women, but more convincing than the work of Bun's juniors, mostly because of his forceful delivery. Bun has a steady tenor voice and carves his straightforward rhymes with precision. He stretches out the middle of the word "ain't," then bites the "t" off cleanly, as in: "Cause we doin' it real big, in case you thinkin' we ain't." His presentation is unfussy, direct, and loud.
As UGK, Bun and his partner, Pimp C, found an audience with "Pocket Full of Stones," a vivid song about drug dealing that was featured on the soundtrack of the 1993 film "Menace II Society." Six years later, UGK performed several tough-minded, pro-South verses on Jay-Z's top-forty single "Big Pimpin' "—including Bun's memorable admonishment "Go read a book, you illiterate son of a bitch, and step up yo' vocab." In 2002, after Pimp C was charged with a parole violation stemming from an aggravated-assault conviction and imprisoned, Bun B entered a period of intense productivity, contributing guest verses to dozens of tracks, by almost every major artist in hip-hop, and hosting numerous local mix tapes.


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For the past several years, comic book games have actually been improving. Gone are the tedious beat-em-up yawn fests of the 16 bit era; we now have hits like X-Men Legends and Hulk: Ultimate Destruction. Spider Man, through his movie rejuvenation, has been at the forefront of gaming too, but his last two outings were only good, not great. The game that accompanied the first Spidey film had considerable depth but was limited to a level-based setup. Spider Man 2's innovation was a massive, free-roaming New York. Kind of like GTA, but without the low polygon hookers.
There won't be another movie starring the wall-crawler for at least two years, so developer Treyarch has tapped another area of webhead lore: Ultimate Spider-Man. The comic, launched in 2000, is a retelling of Peter Parker's early days as a hero, and the game follows one of the series' most pivotal story arcs: the Venom saga. This is where Ultimate is different from all of the other Spidey games: it lets you play as Venom himself. This new gameplay dynamic is accompanied by the most Marvel characters seen in a game thus far, as well as a refined interface and (finally) some bonus content.
While all of the extras make for a more involved play experience, by far the most attractive element on Ultimate Spider-Man is the story. Spider Man the Movie 1 and 2 dropped the ball in that regard, and the plots of the respective films felt tacked on and at times totally neglected. Not so with Ultimate. Treyarch commissioned the writers of the comic, Mark Bagley and Brian Michael Bendis, to pen the script and create the character art.
The result is impressive; aside from recurring characters, some classic Spidey villains make their Ultimate debut in the game. The plot is also canonical with the comics, a first for comic-game crossovers, so if you're a regular reader of the book expect to see some fallout from the events of the game.
The graphical style accompanies the comic story with faithful accuracy. Cutscenes, while still full-motion, are framed in fast-moving boxes and panels, and occasionally spoken dialog is represented in stylized text. Even outside of the cutscenes, the game looks like a comic book. I know cel-shading isn't anything new, but it's the way the developers use it that makes it special in Ultimate Spider-Man. Everything, especially characters, appear as if it's been inked. They all have heavy black outlines and vibrant, loud color shading.
The buildings and the background have some questionable draw distance, but the flat, abstract appearance of the city in the distance lends even more of a comic look to the environment.


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The federal and provincial governments are sponsoring a contest about workplace safety.
The Ontario Ministry of Labour says that each year 6,200 young workers across this province are injured seriously enough to need time off work; the national figure is more than 31,000 youths.
Meanwhile, some are unaware they have the right to be paid fairly for the work they do.
That's why the federal government, the provinces and territories are jointly launching the first national video contest on workplace safety and fairness.
The contest began Feb. 1 and closes April 5.
With cash prizes of up to $3,000, the It's Your Job contest invites contestants to submit a video of up to two minutes on any topic related to awareness about workplace health and safety or employment standards.
"This is an opportunity for young Canadians to speak out on workplace rights and responsibilities because, ultimately, it's about their livelihood and their lives," said George Gritziotis, Chief Prevention Officer at the Ontario Ministry of Labour.
"We want to hear and learn from youth who are, frankly, in the best position to tell us how to reach other youths," he added.
The ages 18-24 category is open to Canadians in all provinces and territories.
High school students will compete within their own province or territory.
Winning videos from those contests will then compete against others across Canada. A panel of celebrity judges will select the winners.
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Johns Creek residents can get a detailed look at how their fire department operates when the Johns Creek Citizens Fire Academy returns March 12.
During the eight-week course (nine class days), participants will learn about JCFD's operations, fire tactics and strategies and aspects of fire prevention. Class members will participate in practical drills, both firefighting and emergency medical exercises.
The academy meets March 12, 23, 26 and April 2, 6, 9, 16, 27 and 30, and includes classroom instruction (equipment, fire prevention); demonstrations (CPR, First Aid); and practical exercises (fire training, emergency medical exercises). Class times are Tuesdays, 7-10 p.m. and Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Class dates and times are subject to change.)
"We're very excited to continue the Citizens Fire Academy program," said Deputy Fire Chief Pat Wilson. "The first class was a great success and by resuming the program, more Johns Creek residents can learn about fire safety – and they'll have fun while doing so."
The Citizens Fire Academy is open to Johns Creek residents and those who work in Johns Creek age 18 and older who successfully pass the application process and a criminal history check. The Citizen Fire Academy is limited to 20 people.
Download the application here or get one at JCFD Headquarters, 10205 Medlock Bridge Parkway, Johns Creek. Applications must be submitted by Monday, March 4. If accepted, there is a $25 program fee.
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Driving along one of Los Angeles busy freeways, Tyrese Gibson isnt wasting a single minute.
Man, Im always in motion; Im in motion at all times trying to get a lot of different things going, Gibson says, juggling an interview and various business calls as he heads to his daily workout. There is a way to do some multitasking and accomplish some great things. Im on a mission.
The 33-year-old South Central L.A. native – a former model, successful singer, in-demand actor and best-selling author – has solidified his place as one of the top multi-hyphenates in entertainment.
Most recently seen in the last Transformers film, Gibson has been busy gearing up for the sixth installment of The Fast and the Furious franchise, which is set to begin shooting this summer. Ive been in the gym working out, trying to get ready for the movie, he says.
In between his film work, Gibson has also been focusing on some musical pursuits, including the release, this year, of his fifth studio album, Open Invitation.
Music is always my first and only love, he says. I have a great deal of respect and passion for acting. But as far as my real love – love – its definitely music.
The singer recently announced that TGT, the long-rumored supergroup with fellow R&B performers Tank and Ginuwine is finally finishing its debut album. Were all great friends and all in the same genre, the same lane, so to speak, Gibson says. We got to talking and its like, Man, we could really do something if we did this together.
The idea is that we built our careers solo, all by ourselves, and now were going to be in a group together. Its almost like weve formed the R&B Avengers, Gibson says, laughing.
Gibson stresses that TGTs album, slated for an early-2013 release, will be a purist effort. This mission here is just to put our hearts on the mike, he says. We just want to remind the fans of what real, true R&B is.
I think a lot of artists that initiated their careers in R&B feel the need to go do house and techno and all this mainstream music – which is fine, cause all music is good music. But were gonna get back to the true R&B that the fans really know and love. Thats what the goal is.
In addition to his work as a singer and actor, Gibson has also become an author. Last year, he released The New York Times best-selling memoir/self-help volume How to Get Out of Your Own Way (the book came out in paperback recently). Gibson says he was motivated to share the life and professional lessons he has learned.
I know that people are inspired by success, he says. A lot of people have success but are stingy, and they dont want to tell people what it takes to get it. Ive just never been that dude who wants to keep good information to myself. So I just felt a certain responsibility to write the book.
Gibson is already at work on a follow-up of sorts, a book called Manology that hes writing with rapper and activist Rev. Run. Gibson is mum on the details, except to say that the book will attempt to digest the thoughts of men in todays society.
As if that werent enough, Gibsons HQ Productions company was given the green light to film Koreatown, a reality-TV series focusing on the lives of Asian-Americans in Los Angeles.
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The Bicycle & Pedestrian Program of the Federal Highway Administration's Office of Human Environment promotes bicycle and pedestrian transportation use, safety, and accessibility.
Each State has a Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator in its State Department of Transportation to promote and facilitate the increased use of nonmotorized transportation, including developing facilities for the use of pedestrians and bicyclists and public educational, promotional, and safety programs for using such facilities. The State Coordinators can help you with questions specific to your State.
The FHWA Bicycle & Pedestrian Program issues guidance and is responsible for overseeing that requirements in legislation are understood and met by the States and other implementing agencies.
On this site you can find information about the amount of federal funding spent on pedestrian and bicycle projects in your state, available federal funding sources, existing legislation, and guidance about accessible design.
FHWA also sponsors resources such as the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center to provide information on a wide variety of engineering, encouragement, education, and enforcement topics. The Center was established with funding from the US DOT and is operated by the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center.
Section 1807 of SAFETEA-LU created the Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program. The goal of this program is to demonstrate how improvements to walking and bicycling infrastructure can increase mode share for walking and bicycling. Four communities (Columbia, MO; Marin County, CA; Minneapolis Area, MN; Sheboygan County, WI) have each received over 25 million dollars to improve their walking and bicycling networks. According to SAFETEA-LU, "The purpose of the program shall be to demonstrate the extent to which bicycling and walking can carry a significant part of the transportation load, and represent a major portion of the transportation solution." A final report to Congress describing the program outcomes was submitted in April, 2012.
This policy statement, released in March 2010, emphasizes the needs and requirements to integrate walking and bicycling into transportation systems and provides some recommendations on how to do so.
The final report for the International Scan on Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety and Mobility has been released. The FHWA/AASHTO Scan Team visited Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom in 2009. The report describes how these countries have made walking and bicycling safer and more convenient through policy, engineering, education, enforcement, encouragement, and evaluation strategies. A follow-on review of Public Policies for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety and Mobility has also been released.
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Many people think Obamacare was repealed
A large number of Americans don't realize that the Affordable Care Act is still the law of the land and will require everyone to have health insurance next year.
This post comes from Brandon Ballenger at partner site Money Talks News.
Forty-two percent of Americans don't know that the Affordable Care Act is still in effect, a new Kaiser Family Foundation poll shows.
Among those people:
- 12% think Congress got rid of it. (It's true the Republican-controlled U.S. House has tried literally dozens of times.)
- 7% think the Supreme Court did. (It's true that both Fox News and CNN wrongly reported that in the minutes after the ruling last summer.)
- 23% said they didn't know enough to say whether the law existed or not. That's a record high since KFF began tracking public awareness three years ago.
Nearly half of Americans say they don't know enough about the law to know how or whether it will affect them. More than half of those who stand to benefit most from the changes -- the uninsured and low-income households -- feel that way.
Forty percent have an unfavorable view of the law, while 35% have a favorable one. President Obama said at a press conference Tuesday that the administration is still making refinements to the regulations used to implement the law. One of those is a streamlined application form for the uninsured, The Associated Press says.
Healthcare.gov provides information about the law and how it affects everyone. It has help for getting insurance, plus a timeline for the law, which continues to be implemented in phases through 2015.
But here are a few key upcoming points about the still very-real health care law:
- Beginning in October, new insurance exchanges will open for enrollment in every state.
- At the same time, tax credits will become available to help many people afford their premiums.
- Beginning in January, most of those who can afford insurance and refuse coverage will pay a fine. There are exceptions -- check out this flow chart (.pdf file) -- and the amount will increase over time, but will initially be the greater of $95 per adult and $47.50 per child or 1% of family income. For example, that would be $285 for parents with two kids and a household income of $28,500.
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Where has the MEDIA been on this? The left wing media is STILL protecting Obama and has been since the first time he ran for president. It is THEIR job to inform Americans. We need the truth to make smart decisions. They hid the truth about Obama's agenda and they hid the truth about what this HORRIBLE piece of legislation will do to jobs and the economy. They only want to tell us the truth about Republicans and ignore or hide the truth about the Democrats and Obama. They are hurting America with their favoritism and bias for one party over the other. Fairness and impartiality are a thing of the past in journalism. Just look at the way they covered the Occupy protest compared to the the Tea Party. I blame a lot of this ignorance on the liberal, progressive left wing MEDIA!
you spend over $7500 in gas a year with bush $3100 with bush you had a better paying job.
now you will have to pay $12000 a year for insurance and $7500 in gas and 37% for food. so over $20,000 a year to have Obama in office will it be worth it? if you don't belive me go back to your cheaking account when bush was in office and check for yourself.
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Yes, this is the loony , lefty "Summer of Recovery "
Only in America can the growth fall behind what we pay to beggars and it still can be called a "recovery"
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Sir Stanley Spencer (1891‐1959) is one of the most important English painters of the 20th century. Best known for his paintings which elevate ordinary village life to epic, sometimes Biblical grandeur, his most famous large-scale work is the cycle of murals at Sandham Memorial Chapel, now owned by the National Trust. To mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, this major exhibition offers a unique opportunity to see the complete cycle of murals together with the related studies and drawings.
Pallant House Gallery, as a registered charity, depends on the many generous individuals who give time and money to support the work of the Gallery, preserving one of the country's most important collections of modern British art.
This ensures there can be a lively programme of interpretation around the exhibitions, enabling more people to have better access to the artwork on display, now and in the future.
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While the number of quality players moved on this year's trade deadline was rather disappointing, there were still a number of movements made. Below I'll take a look at the moves made in the Eastern Conference on the actual deadline day, as well as a handful of others that happened within the week or so leading up to the deadline. Along with the actual trades being listed, I will also take a look at the fantasy impact (or potential impact) for each team that made a move.
Boston Bruins – The Bruins acquired Greg Zanon (for Steve Kampfer) and Brian Rolston and Mike Mottau (for Riendeau and Cantin). Boston was definitely trying to bolster their blue line before the playoffs so as to best defend their Stanley Cup title and they did so by giving up next to nothing. Zanon, who adds decent value in hits and blocked shots, has primarily been paired with Joe Corvo thus far, while Mottau is being reserved as a healthy scratch. Not that the Boston goaltenders needed much help anyway, but they definitely got more through the end of this season and into the postseason.
Rolston is a veteran with a ton of experience who can be used in a top-six role quite effectively. Early on, he has at times taken Tyler Seguin's place on the Bergeron-Marchand line, but not to worry – Rolston is averaging only 12:14 ice time thus far. He also has a cannon from the point, where he is currently seeing time on the 2nd PP unit, and with one assist (power-play assist) in three games thus far, he may be a decent depth addition if he heats up.
Buffalo Sabres – The Sabres added Cody Hodgson and Alexander Sulzer (for Zack Kassian and Marc-Andre Gragnani) and a first round pick (for Paul Gaustad and a 4th round pick). The Sabres were involved in what was likely the biggest trade of the deadline, bringing in the very skilled and promising youngster in Hodgson and added some defensive depth in Sulzer. Since the trade Hodgson, who was averaging 12:44 of ice time in Vancouver, is already averaging over 17 minutes per game in Buffalo. He has been primarily paired with Ennis and Stafford, two players with a ton of skill. The Sabres gave up two big pieces of their prospect system to get him, so fantasy owners can rest assured that Hodgson will get plenty of opportunity to blossom quickly.
Sulzer, a once promising offensive defenseman, has struggled to find his offensive game at the NHL level and is now skating for his fourth team in two seasons. In his first game for Buffalo (Saturday), he was paired with Ehrhoff and skated just 12:57. He was plus-one in that game though and is plus-seven on the season (in 13 games). The hope is that Sulzer will be more responsible in his own end, which should in turn help the performance of Ryan Miller, which has been rocky at times this season.
Florida Panthers – The Panthers acquired Wojtek Wolski (for Mike Vernace and a 2013 3rd round pick) and Jerred Smithson (for a 2012 6th round pick). Wolski has struggled to find a home in this league, and his season in New York was almost over before it started. There were rumors of a contract buyout over the summer and combined with various injuries, Wolski was in need of a new home. With the new-look Panthers, Wolski may have finally found his groove. He has seen time with either Santorelli-Matthias or Fleischmann-Goc, and he has three points in five games, while averaging 15:30 per game.
Smithson has had a harder time finding offense in Florida, scoring zero points in his five games as a Panther, while averaging less than 13 minutes per game and skating with the likes of Skille-Barch or Goc-Kopecky. Smithson is a depth forward who won't provide any fantasy relevance this year, but could provide some important veteran experience for the Panthers in the playoffs.
Montreal Canadiens – The Canadiens acquired a 2013 2nd round pick and a conditional 2013 5th round pick (for Andrei Kostitsyn) and Blake Geoffrion, Robert Slaney, and a 2012 2nd round pick (for Hal Gill and a conditional 2013 5th round pick). It was becoming increasingly clear that Kostitsyn was not in Montreal's future plans, but the fact that he was reunited with his brother Sergei in Nashville was a bit of a shocker. Both picks that the Canadiens received are in 2013, so this trade was mostly cashing in whatever value they could get for a pending UFA that they weren't planning on re-signing.
Since Kostitsyn wasn't skating in the top-six, the move didn't open any doors there, but it did open up room for Montreal to experiment shuffling their talent into three lines instead of two. With that shift, Blake Geoffrion has found himself on a line with Plekanec and White, with Rene Bourque skating with Eller and LeBlanc. The offense might not be there yet, but the Canadiens, who won't make the playoffs, are doing the right thing by giving more ice time to their youngsters and focusing on developing them for next season.
New Jersey Devils – The Devils acquired Marek Zidlicky (for Kurtis Foster, Nick Palmieri, Stephane Vellieux, a 2012 2nd round pick, and a conditional 2013 3rd round pick). Heading into this season, the Devils were hoping that one of Andy Greene or Adam Larsson would serve as the team's top defenseman. While each has played well at times, neither has had a consistently productive season the way they were hoping for. The goal was that Kurtis Foster (acquired from Anaheim) would serve this role. After another flop, the Devils paid a huge price to land Zidlicky.
Since arriving in New Jersey, Zidlicky has assumed the top role on the power play, averaging 20:13 per game, but going pointless and minus-four in his first four games. Zidlicky is signed through next season at $4M, but at 35 years of age, does he have what it takes to be the top dog in New Jersey? Based on the significant pieces that the Devils sacrificed to bring him in, you can sure bet that Zidlicky will get plenty of opportunities to shine.
New York Islanders – The Islanders acquired Yannick Riendeau and Marc Cantin (For Rolson and Mottau). For the Islanders, this trade was all about moving players that didn't fit into their long-term vision and opening the door for existing players. Both Riendeau and Cantin are essentially ECHL players, so neither is expected to become a mainstay for the Isles. Instead, the move opened up room for guys like Josh Bailey, Nino Niederreiter, and Casey Cizikas. Thus far Bailey has been impressive and the line of Cizikas, Niederreiter, and Kyle Okposo has looked solid as well.
New York Rangers – The Rangers acquired John Scott (for a 2012 5th round pick) Mike Vernace and a 2013 3rd round pick (for Wojtek Wolski). With John Scott in the lineup, the Rangers added a mean, intimidating presence on their blue line who they likely won't play too often, but will have available if needed. The price tag was relatively small, making the depth pickup a no-brainer for the Rangers. They also added Vernace, another depth pickup (currently in Connecticut) and a third rounder in 2013 for Wolski. They weren't using Wolski, so they essentially saved themselves cap space for the current season (not that they needed it since they didn't acquire anyone with a big salary) and added a fairly nice draft pick down the road. Since Wolski had skated in only nine games for the Rangers this season, the offense was essentially unaffected by this move.
Ottawa Senators – The Senators acquired Matt Gilroy (for Brian Lee) and Ben Bishop (for a 2013 2nd round pick). Matt Gilroy is a gamble for the Senators, but the Senators patience with Brian Lee was running thin. Gilroy is a former Hobey Baker winner who should be working hard for a new contract, but his career-high 18 points in 55 games is still much lower than it could be. The good news is that in two games with Ottawa, Gilroy did manage an assist already. Hopefully the new home will spark similar performance to what he displayed at Boston University.
The other move the Sens made was to acquire Ben Bishop. Ottawa's starting job is fairly secure in the hands of Craig Anderson, but there have been times where Anderson looks lost in the net and with his most recent kitchen accident, adding another goalie is definitely a good thing. He will have to fight Robin Lehner for starts, but Bishop has had a great attitude over the last two years and if given the opportunity, could post some great numbers.
Philadelphia Flyers – The Flyers acquired Pavel Kubina (for Jon Kalinski, a conditional 2nd round pick, and a 2013 4th round pick), Nicklas Grossman (for a 2012 2nd round pick and a 2013 3rd round pick). With the absence of Chris Pronger, the Flyers had been shopping for defensemen for quite some time. Although it took them four draft picks to get, they got their defensive defenseman in Grossman and an offensive defenseman in Kubina. Grossman has looked a little shaky at times, but he comes with a good reputation for being a reliable defensive player. As he adjusts to the move, his presence should help calm Bryzgalov. Kubina on the other hand has fit in a bit nicer early on, but still has Carle, Timonen, Coburn, and Meszaros to fight for power play time. There are only so many minutes to go around, but Kubina has made it clear that he would like to stay in Philadelphia if possible, and is playing for that next contract, giving him the potential to be a cheap late season addition who could pay dividends.
Tampa Bay Lightning – The Lightning acquired Brian Lee (for Matt Gilroy), Keith Aulie (for Carter Ashton), Mike Commodore (for a conditional 7th round pick), Brandon Segal (for Matt Fornataro), Stephane Piche and a 2012 1st round pick (for essentially Steve Downie). Steve Yzerman essentially went through his "keeper list," found all of the pending free agents he was not planning on re-signing, and began to shop. In exchange for Gilroy, he received the once promising Brian Lee, who has posted two assists in his first three games for the Bolts. For Carter Ashton, who had a marvelous start to his season in the AHL, Yzerman received Keith Aulie, who has seen less than 10 minutes per game in his first two games in Tampa, but has been said to be a very coachable player willing to learn, which is never a bad thing to have in the locker room.
In the other moves, Yzerman brought in Commodore, who has been paired with Lee, a couple minor leaguers, and a first round pick in the coming draft. Tampa is pushing for a playoff spot, so the success of the Commodore-Lee combination could make or break the postseason hopes for this team.
On offense, Downie's departure is huge. Purcell is now skating with Stamkos and St. Louis, while Connolly and Malone are staking with JT Wyman, filling in while Lecavalier is out. While the defense has been bolstered, the goaltending is average and the offense is almost entirely on the shoulders of one line in Tampa Bay now. Purcell might be the one player from the Lightning who you want and can actually acquire.
Toronto Maple Leafs – The Leafs acquired Mark Fraser (for Dale Mitchell), Carter Ashton (for Keith Aulie). Brian Burke typically doesn't make a ton of moves at the trade deadline, but they are often effective moves. This year, both players acquired were minor leaguers, with Ashton being the closest to being NHL-ready. Ashton is a prototypical Burke player, as he adds an element of grit to his game. He showed a ton of offensive upside early in the season, but tapered off in the second half. If he can keep his game consistent, he could be a huge pickup for the Leafs.
Winnipeg Jets – The Jets acquired 2013 2nd and 2013 3rd round picks (for Johnny Oduya). With the Oduya departure, the Jets lose another piece of the Kovalchuk trade, but it was the right move. Although they won't get to use the picks for another year, Oduya was easily replaceable. The Jets are in the playoff race in the East and with the extra assets from this deal, the future continues to look bright.
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When people talk about the need to modernize the American air-traffic-control system, this is, in large part, what they are referring to. Whenever a plane takes off, the basic data about the flight—the type of plane, the radar I.D. number, the requested altitude, the destination—are printed out on a stiff piece of paper, perhaps one and a half by six and a half inches, known as a flight strip. And as the plane passes through each sector of the airspace the controller jots down, using a kind of shorthand, everything new that is happening to the plane—its speed, say, and where it's heading, clearances from ground control, holding instructions, comments on the pilot. It's a method that dates back to the days before radar, and it drives critics of the air-traffic-control system crazy. Why, in this day and age, are planes being handled like breakfast orders in a roadside diner?
This is one of the great puzzles of the modern workplace. Computer technology was supposed to replace paper. But that hasn't happened. Every country in the Western world uses more paper today, on a per-capita basis, than it did ten years ago. The consumption of uncoated free-sheet paper, for instance—the most common kind of office paper—rose almost fifteen per cent in the United States between 1995 and 2000. This is generally taken as evidence of how hard it is to eradicate old, wasteful habits and of how stubbornly resistant we are to the efficiencies offered by computerization. A number of cognitive psychologists and ergonomics experts, however, don't agree. Paper has persisted, they argue, for very good reasons: when it comes to performing certain kinds of cognitive tasks, paper has many advantages over computers. The dismay people feel at the sight of a messy desk—or the spectacle of air-traffic controllers tracking flights through notes scribbled on paper strips—arises from a fundamental confusion about the role that paper plays in our lives.
Without paper, this kind of collaborative, iterative work process would be much more difficult. According to Sellen and Harper, paper has a unique set of "affordances"—that is, qualities that permit specific kinds of uses. Paper is tangible: we can pick up a document, flip through it, read little bits here and there, and quickly get a sense of it. (In another study on reading habits, Sellen and Harper observed that in the workplace, people almost never read a document sequentially, from beginning to end, the way they would read a novel.) Paper is spatially flexible, meaning that we can spread it out and arrange it in the way that suits us best. And it's tailorable: we can easily annotate it, and scribble on it as we read, without altering the original text. Digital documents, of course, have their own affordances. They can be easily searched, shared, stored, accessed remotely, and linked to other relevant material. But they lack the affordances that really matter to a group of people working together on a report. Sellen and Harper write:
But why do we pile documents instead of filing them? Because piles represent the process of active, ongoing thinking. The psychologist Alison Kidd, whose research Sellen and Harper refer to extensively, argues that "knowledge workers" use the physical space of the desktop to hold "ideas which they cannot yet categorize or even decide how they might use." The messy desk is not necessarily a sign of disorganization. It may be a sign of complexity: those who deal with many unresolved ideas simultaneously cannot sort and file the papers on their desks, because they haven't yet sorted and filed the ideas in their head. Kidd writes that many of the people she talked to use the papers on their desks as contextual cues to "recover a complex set of threads without difficulty and delay" when they come in on a Monday morning, or after their work has been interrupted by a phone call. What we see when we look at the piles on our desks is, in a sense, the contents of our brains.
Sellen and Harper arrived at similar findings when they did some consulting work with a chocolate manufacturer. The people in the firm they were most interested in were the buyers—the staff who handled the company's relationships with its venders, from cocoa and sugar manufacturers to advertisers. The buyers kept folders (containing contracts, correspondence, meeting notes, and so forth) on every supplier they had dealings with. The company wanted to move the information in those documents online, to save space and money, and make it easier for everyone in the firm to have access to it. That sounds like an eminently rational thing to do. But when Sellen and Harper looked at the folders they discovered that they contained all kinds of idiosyncratic material—advertising paraphernalia, printouts of e-mails, presentation notes, and letters—much of which had been annotated in the margins with thoughts and amendments and, they write, "perhaps most important, comments about problems and issues with a supplier's performance not intended for the supplier's eyes." The information in each folder was organized—if it was organized at all—according to the whims of the particular buyer. Whenever other people wanted to look at a document, they generally had to be walked through it by the buyer who "owned" it, because it simply wouldn't make sense otherwise. The much advertised advantage of digitizing documents—that they could be made available to anyone, at any time—was illusory: documents cannot speak for themselves. "All of this emphasized that most of what constituted a buyer's expertise resulted from involvement with the buyer's own suppliers through a long history of phone calls and meetings," Sellen and Harper write:
Perhaps no one embodied this notion more than the turn-of-the-century reformer Melvil Dewey. Dewey has largely been forgotten by history, perhaps because he was such a nasty fellow—an outspoken racist and anti-Semite—but in his day he dominated America's thinking about the workplace. He invented the Dewey decimal system, which revolutionized the organization of libraries. He was an ardent advocate of shorthand and of the metric system, and was so obsessed with time-saving and simplification that he changed his first name from Melville to the more logical Melvil. (He also pushed for the adoption of "catalog" in place of "catalogue," and of "thruway" to describe major highways, a usage that survives to this day in New York State). Dewey's principal business was something called the Library Bureau, which was essentially the Office Depot of his day, selling card catalogues, cabinets, office chairs and tables, pre-printed business forms, and, most important, filing cabinets. Previously, businessmen had stored their documents in cumbersome cases, or folded and labelled the pieces of paper and stuck them in the pigeonholes of the secretary desks so common in the Victorian era. What Dewey proposed was essentially an enlarged version of a card catalogue, where paper documents hung vertically in long drawers.
The vertical file was a stunning accomplishment. In those efficiency-obsessed days, it prompted books and articles and debates and ended up winning a gold medal at the 1893 World's Fair, because it so neatly addressed the threat of disorder posed by the proliferation of paper. What good was that railroad schedule, after all, if it was lost on someone's desk? Now a railroad could buy one of Dewey's vertical filing cabinets, and put the schedule under "S," where everyone could find it. In "Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age" (Arcade; $24.95), the computer scientist David M. Levy argues that Dewey was the anti-Walt Whitman, and that his vision of regularizing and standardizing life ended up being just as big a component of the American psyche as Whitman's appeal to embrace the world just as it is. That seems absolutely right. The fact is, the thought of all those memos and reports and manuals made Dewey anxious, and that anxiety has never really gone away, even in the face of evidence that paper is no longer something to be anxious about.
When Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, for example, how did he imagine it would be used? As a dictation device that a businessman could pass around the office in place of a paper memo. In 1945, the computer pioneer Vannevar Bush imagined what he called a "memex"—a mechanized library and filing cabinet, on which an office worker would store all his relevant information without the need for paper files at all. So, too, with the information-technology wizards who have descended on the workplace in recent years. Instead of a real desktop, they have offered us the computer desktop, where cookie-cutter icons run in orderly rows across a soothing background, implicitly promising to bring order to the chaos of our offices.
Sellen and Harper include in their book a photograph of an office piled high with stacks of paper. The occupant of the office—a researcher in Xerox's European research facility—was considered neither ineffective nor inefficient. Quite the contrary: he was, they tell us, legendary in being able to find any document in his office very quickly. But the managers of the laboratory were uncomfortable with his office because of what it said about their laboratory. They were, after all, an organization looking to develop digital workplace solutions. "They wanted to show that this was a workplace reaching out to the future rather than being trapped in an inefficient past," Sellen and Harper write. "Yet, if this individual's office was anything to go by, the reality was that this workplace of the future was full of paper." Whenever senior colleagues came by the office, then, the man with the messy desk was instructed to put his papers in boxes and hide them under the stairs. The irony is, of course, that it was not the researcher who was trapped in an inefficient past but the managers. They were captives of the nineteenth-century notion that paper was most useful when it was put away. They were channelling Melvil Dewey. But this is a different era. In the tasks that face modern knowledge workers, paper is most useful out in the open, where it can be shuffled and sorted and annotated and spread out. The mark of the contemporary office is not the file. It's the pile.
Psychologists believe that those so-called flight strips play a major role in helping controllers achieve this situation awareness. Recently, for example, Wendy Mackay, a computer scientist now working in Paris, spent several months at an air-traffic-control facility near Orly Airport, in Paris. The French air-traffic-control system is virtually identical to the American system. One controller, the planning controller, is responsible for the radar. He has a partner, whose job is to alert the radar controller to incoming traffic, and what Mackay observed was how beautifully the strips enable efficient interaction between these two people. The planning controller, for instance, overhears what his partner is saying on the radio, and watches him annotate strips. If he has a new strip, he might keep it just out of his partner's visual field until it is relevant. "She [the planner] moves it into his peripheral view if the strip should be dealt with soon, but not immediately," Mackay writes. "If the problem is urgent, she will physically move it into his focal view, placing the strip on top of the stripboard or, rarely, inserting it."
Those strips moving in and out of the peripheral view of the controller serve as cognitive cues, which the controller uses to help keep the "picture" of his sector clear in his head. When taking over a control position, controllers touch and rearrange the strips in front of them. When they are given a new strip, they are forced mentally to register a new flight and the new traffic situation. By writing on the strips, they can off-load information, keeping their minds free to attend to other matters. The controller's flight strips are like the piles of paper on a desk: they are the physical manifestations of what goes on inside his head. Is it any wonder that the modernization of the air-traffic-control system has taken so long? No one wants to do anything that might disrupt that critical mental process.
This is, of course, a difficult conclusion for us to accept. Like the managers of the office-technology lab, we have in our heads the notion that an air-traffic-control center ought to be a pristine and gleaming place, full of the latest electronic gadgetry. We think of all those flight strips as cluttering and confusing the work of the office, and we fret about where all that paper will go. But, as Sellen and Harper point out, we needn't worry. It is only if paper's usefulness is in the information written directly on it that it must be stored. If its usefulness lies in the promotion of ongoing creative thinking, then, once that thinking is finished, the paper becomes superfluous. The solution to our paper problem, they write, is not to use less paper but to keep less paper. Why bother filing at all? Everything we know about the workplace suggests that few if any knowledge workers ever refer to documents again once they have filed them away, which should come as no surprise, since paper is a lousy way to archive information. It's too hard to search and it takes up too much space. Besides, we all have the best filing system ever invented, right there on our desks—the personal computer. That is the irony of the P.C.: the workplace problem that it solves is the nineteenth-century anxiety. It's a better filing cabinet than the original vertical file, and if Dewey were alive today, he'd no doubt be working very happily in an information-technology department somewhere. The problem that paper solves, by contrast, is the problem that most concerns us today, which is how to support knowledge work. In fretting over paper, we have been tripped up by a historical accident of innovation, confused by the assumption that the most important invention is always the most recent. Had the computer come first—and paper second—no one would raise an eyebrow at the flight strips cluttering our air-traffic-control centers. ♦


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